Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
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#2From memory flickr was born from a project to create a photo sharing site for photos of the game the founder were developing. So this isn't surprising. I think I got that from Founders at Work.
Re: Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
#3From memory flickr was born from a project to create a photo sharing site for photos of the game the founder were developing. So this isn't surprising. I think I got that from Founders at Work.
Yes, the people at Ludicorp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicorp) were making Game Neverending (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Neverending).
And as pointed out in the Wikipedia article on GNE: "Occasional signs of this legacy are visible, such as the '.gne' file extension appearing in Flickr's URLs."
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#4Very impressed by CNET spending the resources to embed a reporter like this.
Here's a great gallery of in-progress art, prototypes, etc:
Re: Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
#5that's a puffy piece, as it's called in journalistic circles.
Re: Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
#6that's a puffy piece, as it's called in journalistic circles.
Technically, I think that's "puff piece," but I concur.